I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
TONI MORRISONIf you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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